Information for network administrators
This page contains links to areas of the network performance project website that network administrators may find relevant.
Performance testing
At the current time, the Canadian Astronomy Data Center is focused on user testing to determine how transfer speeds of CADC data may be improved. We hope to achieve this first by gaining metrics using our network performance testing tool, and then by collaboration with the network administrators at the institutions where our users reside.
If you wish to know more about the throughput between your site and the CADC, we encourage you to take our network performance test. It provides results, including a packet dump and BGP routing information, that can be used by you to accurately judge the state of this network path.
Network performance information
One of the goals of the network performance project is to make information available about the various problems that networks can run into performance wise. We hope that this information will be of use to you in fixing network problems or increasing network efficiency.
Machine performance
- Link speed and duplex (low complexity) [Guide not yet available]
- Using iperf (low complexity) [Guide not yet available]
- Adjusting Operating System TCP parameters
Network performance
- Link speed and duplex (low complexity) [Guide not yet available]
- Checking for link errors (low complexity) [Guide not yet available]
- Gathering traffic statistics (low complexity) [Guide not yet available]
- Examining the routed path (medium complexity) [Guide not yet available]
- Basic packet capture analysis (advanced complexity) [Guide not yet available]
